408 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

Q. Which war in your mind, personally, do you think is more im-
portant?

A. Well, that's a question that I couldn't answer because I don't
even know how important the Vietnam war is at this point.

Q. Governor, may we get back to the state do-it-yourself thing? You
said that you felt that New York was making great strides because
it started things before the Federal government would come in. With
reference to Maryland, are you going to present any programs to the
upcoming session of the Legislature with regard to the poverty situa-
tion?

A. We're thinking about looking at the programs in prefinancing
that New York has used in some of its recent issues. Fortunately, be-
cause of the pioneering that Rockefeller did, we don't have to worry
about prefinancing pure waters or prefinancing transportation or the
urban development corporation that he's thinking about. But, yes,
we are going to look at programs of that type and it well may be that
we will come up with the conclusion that Maryland should be doing
something that the Federal government has not shown the leadership
in, and, if so, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

Q. Governor, at the Southern Governors' Conference one of the
newspaper reports indicated that when Governor Maddox got up
and began to rant against the Federal government, there was no sup-
port for him from some of the deep South governors. Did you detect,
perhaps, a little softening of anti-federalists among southern gover-
nors?

A. Well, Governor Maddox didn't really rant against the Federal
government. His comments were directed in opposition to a report of
the Southern Regional Education Board concerning the upgrading
of Negro colleges and universities, and I found little sympathy for
his position in that regard. I don't detect among the southern governors
any appreciable hostility to the Federal-state partnership, and certainly
during the first day of the conference when the whole discussion went
to Federal-state relationships, we found that these people are knowl-
edgeable and interested in using the Federal programs wherever they
can. We heard on the third day of the conference Mr. Bridwell, the
Federal highways administrator, talk about some of the problems in
his department, along with Secretary Boyd, and I was delighted to find
that Undersecretary Bridwell singled out Maryland for special praise
because of the solution to the City's interlocked highways and the